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A controversy arose when the regular Army attempted to reduce the number of planned National Guard divisions to 21, which was resolved when Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy decided on 27 for the Army National Guard. [174] By September 1959 the Army National Guard had reorganized into twenty-one infantry and six armored divisions. [175]
The Army National Guard (ARNG) is an organized militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States Army.It is simultaneously part of two different organizations: the Militia of the United States (consisting of the ARNG of each state, most territories, and the District of Columbia), as well as the federal ARNG, as part of the National Guard as a whole (which includes the Air ...
During some periods of the 2003 war in Iraq, the National Guard (Army National Guard and Air National Guard) represented 41% of all U.S. military personnel deployed. [6] The majority are supposed to serve for six months or a year. However, some specialists in the reserve forces have been required to serve for up to two years.
Annual training refers to the yearly training period conducted by all National Guard and Reserve components of the United States military pursuant to law and military service directives. [1] [2] Usually advertised as two weeks each year that personnel must attend, annual training periods have increased to as much as month-long events during the ...
The Army National Guard fielded six infantry, two mechanized, and two armored divisions for a total of ten National Guard divisions, as well as 18 separate combat brigades (11x infantry, 3x armored, 4x mechanized) and three armored cavalry regiments. [49] [50] The Army Reserve fielded one mechanized and two infantry brigades. [50]
I Am The Guard: A History of the Army National Guard, 1636-2000. Department of the Army Pamhlet No. 130-1. Washington: GPO. ISBN 0-16-066449-7. Gobbel, Luther Lafayette (1919). "Militia in North Carolina in Colonial and Revolutionary Times". Historical Papers. XIII. Durham, N. C.: Trinity College Historical Society. pp. 35– 61.
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